the EWidgetMessageTypes enum is just to provide nice nmemonics for the
message types. The kC_MSGMAX id was not used and I've removed it from
the enum. Casting to the EWidgetMessageTypes enum is ok. However to prevent
any clash with future system widgets I propose that user defined message
types are >1000. For sub-messages the range is always 1-255.
I've added this user message type requirement (>1000) to the documentation
(in the new header WidgetMessageTypes.h).
Cheers, Fons.
>
> Hi Rooters
>
> To take advantage of MK_MSG I used statements such as,
>
> #define M_NEW_1DHISTO ((EWidgetMessageTypes) 9)
>
> Casting an integer outside the range of the enumeration worked (at least
> on my platform) but I gather this is not the way to go.
>
> The comment in the source (TGWidget.h)
>
> //--- Widget messages and submessages
> // (sub messages must be in the range 1-255)
> // (these should be on a separate include file)
>
> seems to indicate that sub-messages can be valued up to 255 but
> the enumeration has a max val of 8 ?
>
> thanks for any help
>
> Sean
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